News Item: In remarks to wealthy donors (videotaped), Mitt Romney dismisses the 47 percent of Americans, who (according to him) "believe they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it".... [and] pay no income tax", adding, his "job is not to worry about" those who refuse to "take personal responsibility and care for their lives".

The Romney Marshes in Kent are a desolate region. Gale force winds blow across from the English Channel numbing the minds of its residents (heavily woolled sheep) leading naturally to many incidents of hoof-in-mouth disease.

The most famous son of this area, a ram going by the nickname Twitt, given him by his fellows, displays frequent signs. Yet, he has amassed a fortune, proving once again that brains are a handicap for a capitalist leading as they do, to that unfortunate deadly virus, a social conscience, that is fatal to capitalism.

Just to be sure, Twitt, is it not true that most of the 47 percent are paying payroll taxes, and many therefore end up with a higher percentage tax burden than you?

Oh, I pay all my taxes, all the burdens imposed by our overbearing government. I would cut taxes so you would have more money in your pocket to spend and invest and grow the economy.

You mean like the cutting of the dividends and long-term capital gains tax rates to 15 percent, so people like you could have more money to spend and invest.

Exactly!

But then can you explain why you have moved your money to off-shore banks instead of investing here at home?

That is a long story, I'll tell you later. Tell you what though ... we sheep learned a long time ago how to deal with fleas like you.